Maša Mrovlje

The exit economy is here. Black Women are paying the highest price | Fortune This isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. And it's not a recovery, it's a redistribution of opportunity.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

Survivors of modern slavery face neglect, weak protections, and disbelief, especially in #NorthernIreland. This piece calls for reform of the #ModernSlaveryAct, stronger survivor support, and a shift from blaming victims to demanding accountability.

https://ow.ly/2nav50XjQBm

Kill It with Fire - Boston Review In Spain, ultra-nationalist efforts to rehabilitate Franco extend the global right’s war on memory.

Fifty years after his death, Francisco Franco is being rehabilitated in Spain.

Writing from Extremadura in our spring issue, Troy Nahumko surveys the social and political battles still being waged over the dictatorship, with jarring parallels to Trump’s own war on historical memory:

Last week @ncl-congov.bsky.social held an Early Career Researcher workshop @lawresearch-ncluk.bsky.social on Environmental and Digital constitutionalism.
@nifemiadesina.bsky.social, Marie and Li presented their fascinating research projects!

The Research Handbook on Global Governance is now out in the world!
Edited with @aoifemod.bsky.social and Cher Weixia Chen this Handbook is 10yrs in the making!

I participated in last year's Summer School, which had as its theme "Racial Capitalism". Highly recommended!

The worrying rise of US anti-abortion rhetoric is in full force - how deep is Reform UK's involvement? Money is pouring into anti-abortion campaigns in Britain, and it seems Nigel Farage’s party isn’t pushing back…

The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.

Reading and Writing the Weather - Bronislaw Szerszynski, 2010 In this article I argue that an adequate response to climate change requires an overcoming of the metaphysics of presence that is structuring our relationship w...

From the Archive: Bronislaw Szerszynski, 'Reading and Writing the Weather' - argues that an adequate response to climate change requires an overcoming of the metaphysics of presence that is structuring our relationship with the weather. (Free Access) (2010) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

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ICYMI: Gabriel O. Apata, '‘I Can't Breathe’: The Suffocating Nature of Racism - aims to show how racism shifted from the black body as the visible and material target of racial oppression to air/breath. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

PSC Trade Union Conference: Workers Organising Against Genocide - Palestine Solidarity Campaign PSC Trade union conference in Solidarity with Palestine Workers Organising Against Genocide Saturday 22 November 2025 – 10am to 5pm in London  From factories to universities, workers across the UK are...

Workers across Britain are organising to end complicity in Israel’s violence.

Join us to plan how we step up workplace solidarity with Palestine.

palestinecampaign.org/events/psc-t...

No! An assembly of refusals portraying the radical power of “no” by the renowned scholar and author of The Feminist Killjoy Handbook, Sara Ahmed.To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara ...

No! The Art and Activism of Complaining is being published by Feminist Press on April 7, 2026! We fill those speech bubbles: pop, snap, sizzle, shriek, scream, clatter, splatter! feministpress.org/collections/...

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Only 5 days left.

Our jobs, our sector, our future, it all depends on this vote.

Make your vote count before the last safe day on Wednesday.

#WeAreTheUniversity

Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg - Maria Tamboukou, 2013 In this article I explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade Leo Jogiches. My discussion ...

From the Archive: Maria Tamboukou, 'Love, Narratives, Politics: Encounters between Hannah Arendt and Rosa Luxemburg' - explore relationships between love and politics by looking into Rosa Luxemburg’s letters to her lover and comrade, Leo Jogiches.(2013) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Climate Revolution: The Only Future | The Verso Book Club Reading Grou Kim Stanley Robinson is joining the VBC Reading Group to discuss climate fiction and reality with Andreas Malm and Wim Carton.

"With some basic lessons in physics, Malm and Carton show that much of what gets proposed now for coping with the climate crisis will not work." — Kim Stanley Robinson

Join our reading group with Andreas Malm, Wim Carton and Kim Stanley Robinson!

www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/c...

90% voted YES.
32 colleges over the line.
17 colleges already won pay awards.

This is a huge organising win for our FE members.

College bosses must work with us, staff deserve a fair deal, especially when many are paid £7k–£9k less than in sixth forms.

Next steps announced next week.

Me, James Baldwin and the Un-fragmenting of Euro-modern Time Or how do we enter into a time present, of things future?

Here I reflect on how Baldwin's writing unsettled my fixed idea of linear European time, which traps us into repeating history's evil patterns. 'Instead of speaking about the civil rights movement, let us pretend that I am a survivor of the latest slave rebellion.'

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It is indeed worth reading! I’d love to see the film.

New article from Ana Maria Miranda Mora looks interesting for ppl interested in love and freedom (and Hegel)

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IPEG-BISA 2025 book prize winner announcement! 🎉

IPEG awarded the 2025 prize to Ilias Alami and Adam Dixon's 'The Spectre of State Capitalism' Oxford University Press 🌟

Find out more 👉 https://ow.ly/zAJz50XpNWe

Development Studies Association @martinhearson.bsky.social Pedro Perfeito da Silva

Protesters lay outside the #COP30 climate summit in Brazil covered in white sheets, to call attention to the deaths of activists and journalists killed while "defending land, territories and natural resources."

A huge thanks to all the participants in the 2025 Historical Materialism London conference. The conference was a huge success with over 900 presentations and 1400 participants. The biggest Historical Materialism London Conference ever!

‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest The failure by state governments to do anything about pollution means it has often been met with apathy. But at a rare protest anger and frustration were rife

‘I can’t breathe in this city’: inaction over Delhi’s suffocating pollution sparks rare protest

The Queer Feminist Studies WG, an interdisciplinary research group based at the @eui-eu.bsky.social, is co-organising an International Conference titled "QUEER FRAGMENTS: BREAKING, REPARING, TRANSFORMING" (Florence, 4-5 June 2026)!
Find attached our CfP: you have time until 9 January to apply!

On the blog!

Read Rukmini Sen’s reflections on GENDER.ED Director Radhika Govinda’s new book Feminist Politics, Intersectionality and Knowledge Cultivation. From a book forum co-hosted by GENDER.ED, @critiquecentre.bsky.social & the Centre for South Asian Studies earlier this year. edin.ac/4gSUNpU

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Registration is open and programme is online! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: F...

The final day of the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism conference begins today at 10am sharp! The conference will conclude with a plenary on 'Marxist Strategies at the End of Liberal Order', with contributions from Houria Bouteldja, Katy Fox-Hodess, David McNally, and Alex Stoffel.

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s episode is the 1st of two on the extraordinary trial of Marshal Pétain in summer 1945 that ended up putting wartime France in the dock. David talks to historian Julian Jackson about how Pétain found himself so quickly charged with treason.

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms

Our third plenary, 'Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms' with Wendy Brown, Cecilia Rikap, Jeffery Webber and Rafeef Ziadah, is now being live streamed! Join, comrades!

Cardiff restructures professional services, impacting 1,000 staff University proposes to merge existing administrative functions into central hub but unions fear move will add to ‘enormous pressures’

'More than 1,000 staff will be affected as Cardiff University undertakes a “massive” restructuring of its professional services team.'

After all, it's a policy that is/has gone so very swimmingly well at every other university that's implemented it...